Golden Boy [Remastered] - Original Broadway Cast

Advantages: Unique example of early nineties Pop
Disadvantages: Not enough of it!

...to neil tennant, it was "very pet shop boys" 8 years later, in 2001, the Pet Shop Boys rereleased Very, as a two CD remastered version, containing the original CD plus a further listening CD containing other works of the boys during the period 1992 - 1994. In this review I'm going to look at the original Very album CD, plus the bonus CD features on the remastered CD. ********** CD ONE ********** Can You forgive Her? Can You forgive her was a single off the album and was used as the opening track to the album. It's an upbeat, camp and also quite comical song (if you listen to the lyrics in detail.) The song is written about a closet homosexual and its asking whether he can forgive his wife/girlfreind for making a fool of him and realising that he was gay. He doesn't want to admit to himself his true sexuality, yet when his... Read review

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Advantages: Gives a new insight into a classic
Disadvantages: No major disadvantages

...emulated since. If you think of Woodstock but more choral that gives you an idea of the music style. Now this Deluxe Edition comes with two two CDs the first one is the original Broadway cast recording from 1968. Now this is great because it has has some really good singing on it, and Claude and Berger are played by the two writers Rado and Ragni. Now, on the second disc is the original Off-Broadway cast from 1967. Now some of the singing and the quality of recording isn't quite as good, but there's an amazing energy on that recording. The original off broadway show was put on in a Night Club in New York and the cast actually comprised of "Hippys" rather than Actors. Thats what gives it the lovely unfinished but real feal too it. The second disc also has some bonus tracks. Two alternative ending songs and an overture... Read review

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Advantages: First Broadway Rocky since the early 80s
Disadvantages: Only really for collectors, acquired taste

...I was lucky enough to see this production with this cast on Broadway - I say lucky in that many Brits wouldn't have got that chance and because I saw it for free. However, if I had had to pay the $80 or something the tickets were selling for, I'd have been very disappointed indeed. I am also reviewing from a promotional only copy, which I believe is simply a pre-release rather than markedly changed as it contains the same cast. I also got it free! The album contains all the regular stage show songs, including Once In A While, with the occasional introductory speech before a song. This would not be an album I would recommend to those who have never heard either the Picture Show album or the Roxy Cast album as the songs are treated somewhat differently and might put you off the stage version in the UK if you hadn't already heard... Read review

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